{"id":56,"date":"2015-10-09T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2015-10-09T10:09:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:09:20","slug":"daniel-pick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/about\/daniel-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/history\/our-staff\/academic-staff\/professor-daniel-pick\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Pick<\/a>, professor of history and a psychoanalyst, is leading a research group at Birkbeck exploring the history of the human sciences and &#8216;psy&#8217; professions during the Cold War. He currently holds a Senior Investigator grant from the Wellcome Trust for this project, entitled\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;Hidden Persuaders&#8217;: Brainwashing, Culture, Clinical Knowledge and the Cold War Human Sciences, c. 1950-1990&#8242;. Details can be found on the project website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/exchange.sussex.ac.uk\/owa\/redir.aspx?SURL=jCrmscmd87TXcQOTS8cg3FkUsl7kE5BDJviOttrB_gMW4ZpUkdDSCGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AdwB3AHcALgBiAGIAawAuAGEAYwAuAHUAawAvAGgAaQBkAGQAZQBuAHAAZQByAHMAdQBhAGQAZQByAHMALwA.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.bbk.ac.uk%2fhiddenpersuaders%2f\">http:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/hiddenpersuaders\/<\/a>.\u00a0He welcomes doctoral applications in that field, or in his other areas of specialism.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Pick is also a\u00a0Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the British Psychoanalytical Society. He has written features, and contributed to a variety of radio and television programmes, and online discussions, and has presented several radio documentaries for the BBC. He was the series consultant to the 25-part BBC Radio 4 series, &#8216;In Search of Ourselves&#8217; (2014). He has written \u00a0on diverse topics in nineteenth, twentieth, and contemporary cultural and intellectual history, including debates on\u00a0evolutionary theory, \u00a0the idea of\u00a0degeneration, eugenics,\u00a0social\u00a0Darwinism, Victorian cultural attitudes to crime and madness, psychoanalytic though on \u00a0war, and militarism, dreams, \u00a0the myth of Svengali, the cult of Garibaldi, Italian nationalism, the literary representation of Rome, the fear of brainwashing, \u00a0and methodological problems associated with \u00a0psycho-biography, and the application of psychoanalytic thought to history. His most recent books are\u00a0<em>The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and\u00a0the\u00a0Analysts<\/em>\u00a0(2012) and\u00a0<em>Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction<\/em>\u00a0(2015). A co-edited volume, with Matt ffytche,\u00a0<em>Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism<\/em>, will appear in 2016. Earlier publications include \u00a0<em>Rome or\u00a0Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi<\/em>\u00a0(2005), as editor (with Lyndal Roper),\u00a0<em>Dreams and\u00a0History: The Interpretation of\u00a0Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis<\/em>(2004),\u00a0<em>War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age\u00a0<\/em>(1993)\u00a0and<em>Faces of\u00a0Degeneration: A European\u00a0Disorder, c. 1848-1918<\/em>\u00a0(1989). He is an editor of\u00a0<em>History Workshop Journal, a<\/em>\u00a0member of the advisory board\u00a0of\u00a0<em>Psychoanalysis and\u00a0History<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and\u00a0Culture, and is also on the editorial board\u00a0of the New Library of Psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Pick, professor of history and a psychoanalyst, is leading a research group at Birkbeck exploring the history of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6N9Wu-U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/66"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/repsychoanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}